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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve is different, wants to be different, wants not to compete (with the same type of products) but to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve is different, wants to be different, wants not to compete (with the same type of products) but to be different,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of democracy, only the shoemaker can makethe shoe. Only the wearer cantell if it fits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of democracy, only the shoemaker can makethe shoe. Only the wearer cantell if it fits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34282]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are searching for the Holocaust, you will find the real Holocaust in Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41299]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are searching for the Holocaust, you will find the real Holocaust in Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wode has erys, felde has sigt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wode has erys, felde has sigt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results can't be excluded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being fed up with his hometown and his local 7-11.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's just a great songwriter, and obviously, artist-wise, that speaks for itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's just a great songwriter, and obviously, artist-wise, that speaks for itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such an abrogation occurs, the moral obligation between the government and the people dissolves, and ethics is reduced to insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?   What! panting recline on another than me?    Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,     From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;      What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time and design a coalition government that will be stable and stay the course for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flea in his ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flea in his ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464</guid></item></channel></rss>